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The z13 - the Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built -- The Mainframe designed for the Mobile App Economy

The rapid growth of mobile applications has created consumers who expect mobile transactions to be fast and seamless – regardless of which mobile payment platform, retailer, or financial organization is providing the service. As a result, businesses are being forced to evaluate whether their IT infrastructures can support the apps that meet and exceed these consumer expectations -- or face the potential of losing clients to competing businesses.

Addressing these needs, IBM has announced the z13, the first mainframe in history designed for the growth of the mobile app economy. IBM z Systems continues to have the industry’s fastest processor and 300 percent more memory than previous generations, in fact, a single z13 mainframe can process more than 30,000 transactions per second or roughly the equivalent to 100 Cyber Mondays every day. This computing power is essential to support expanding mobile infrastructures, especially since it's estimated that by 2025, consumers will trigger more than 1.6 trillion mobile transactions per day.

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IBM Launches z13 Mainframe -- Most Powerful and Secure System Ever Built

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13 Jan 2015

IBM unveiled its new z13 mainframe, one of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built. It culminates a $1 billion investment, five years of development, and includes more than 500 new patents and represents a collaboration with over 60 clients, underscoring IBM's commitment to providing higher-value, innovative technology for clients. (Augusto Menezes/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

IBM's New z13 Mainframe Designed to Handle Billions of Transactions for the Mobile Economy

Date added:
13 Jan 2015

At IBM's manufacturing facility in Poughkeepsie, NY, software developer Moses Vaughan tests a mobile app that is running on IBM's new z13 mainframe, one of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built. Designed to handle billions of transactions for the mobile economy, it culminates a $1 billion investment, five years of development, and includes more than 500 new patents and represents a collaboration with over 60 clients, underscoring IBM's commitment to providing higher-value, innovative technology for clients. (Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

IBM Engages Students With Premiere of Master the Mainframe World Championship

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04 Mar 2014

Seth Reichelson, a teacher at Lake Brantley High School in Florida, with students during a mainframe programming class. IBM’s Master the Mainframe Contest has enabled over 68,000 students to take charge of world-class enterprise platforms and showcase their talents while learning sought-after computing skills. (Credit: IBM)

IBM engineer Don Gunvalsen, Poughkeepsie, loads the new IBM zEnterprise System mainframe into a test chamber in the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y. facility that subjects the computer to extreme variations in temperatures. The zEnterprise System, the result of three years and $1.5 billion in IBM research and development, marks the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe, extending the mainframe’s powerful reliability and security features to additional systems in the data center (Feature Photo Service for IBM).

IBM employees Larry Terpak (foreground), Johnson City, N.Y., and Chris Wallner, Poughkeepsie, size up covers ready to be installed on the new IBM zEnterprise System mainframe. The zEnterprise System, the result of three years and $1.5 billion in IBM research and development, marks the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe, extending the mainframe’s powerful reliability and security features to additional systems in the data center (Feature Photo Service for IBM).

IBM zEnterprise System Mainframe: World's Fastest Microprocessors - IBM technician Asia Dent, Poughkeepsie, tests the world's fastest microprocessor, made in New York and shipping to clients on Sept. 10. The heart of IBM's new zEnterprise System mainframes, the new chip helps deliver world-record speed (5.2 GHz) as the world's transactions and data continue to grow. The new technology is the result of an investment of more than $1.5 billion in IBM research and development. (Feature Photo Service for IBM). (PRNewsFoto/IBM, Feature Photo Service For IBM)

IBM employees James Geuke, (top) Poughkeepsie, and Larry Terpak (standing), Johnson City, N.Y., install covers on the new IBM zEnterprise System mainframe. The zEnterprise System, the result of three years and $1.5 billion in IBM research and development, marks the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe, extending the mainframe’s powerful reliability and security features to additional systems in the data center (Feature Photo Service for IBM).

IBM engineer Joseph Corrado, Marlboro, N.Y., installs a new x86 blade server into a test unit of IBM’s new IBM zEnterprise System mainframe. The new mainframe is the first to manage workloads running on IBM x86 and Unix systems -- enabling the data center to be centrally managed. The zEnterprise System, the result of three years and $1.5 billion in IBM research and development, marks the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe, extending the mainframe’s powerful reliability and security features to additional systems in the data center (Feature Photo Service for IBM).

IBM zEnterprise System Mainframe: First Production from a New Facility 1

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22 Jul 2010

IBM employees Einar Norman, (left) Plattekill, N.Y. and Richard Lane, Rosendale, N.Y., prepare IBM’s new zEnterprise System Mainframe for shipment in the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant. IBM added a new, 56,000-square-foot, $30 million production floor to its Poughkeepsie plant in 2010 to manufacture the new computer. Altogether the zEnterprise System represents $1.5 billion in R&D investment for IBM and a three-year, 24-hour development cycle that spanned three continents and involved more than 5,000 IBMers working a total of 31 million hours (Feature Photo Service for IBM).

IBM zEnterprise System Mainframe: First Production from a New Facility 2

Date added:
22 Jul 2010

IBM employees Einar Norman, (left) Plattekill, N.Y. and Richard Lane, Rosendale, N.Y., prepare IBM’s new zEnterprise System Mainframe for shipment in the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant. IBM added a new, 56,000-square-foot, $30 million production floor to its Poughkeepsie plant in 2010 to manufacture the new computer. Altogether the zEnterprise System represents $1.5 billion in R&D investment for IBM and a three-year, 24-hour development cycle that spanned three continents and involved more than 5,000 IBMers working a total of 31 million hours.

IBM zEnterprise System Mainframe: First Production from a New Facility 3

Date added:
22 Jul 2010

IBM employees Einar Norman, (left) Plattekill, N.Y. and Richard Lane, Rosendale, N.Y., prepare IBM’s new zEnterprise System Mainframe for shipment in the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plant. IBM added a new, 56,000-square-foot, $30 million production floor to its Poughkeepsie plant in 2010 to manufacture the new computer. Altogether the zEnterprise System represents $1.5 billion in R&D investment for IBM and a three-year, 24-hour development cycle that spanned three continents and involved more than 5,000 IBMers working a total of 31 million hours (Feature Photo Service for IBM).